Was he murdered, or was it a stroke or heart attack (the universe balancing out Bash's healing from the part-time nun)? Either way, yes, her shrugging it off as "Eh, he's past his life expectancy anyway" was weird and fun.

Plus, she does believe in magic. She's probably talked herself into believing that she's really ridding the town and Jamie of a dangerous witch.

Well, I don't really agree with the conclusions that Geillis seemed to reach in terms of time travel paradoxes and what Claire's presence there meant - I'm just going off her reaction. She could have thought anything. Maybe she believed that it was impossible to go through the stones unless you had a mission. Maybe…

I knew it was coming, but I could barely see the scar on my screen, so I can understand why it was pointed out. Also, if you imagine Claire is narrating to what she assumes will be a contemporary audience, maybe the vaccination - or the type of vaccination that gives that very recognizable scar shape - would not be…

It's been years since I read the book, so the only thing I really remembered going in was that Geillis was also from the future. Admittedly, I probably read through the trial thinking, "Jamie and Claire are both fully clothed, next page, please."

If so, I hope they take some time to explore it next season.

I just feel that the characterization is writing itself into a corner. It's one thing to say, "I'm a Christian. Oh, you were baptized once upon a time? Let's make this work, sexy." and another to say, "I would rather the whole city starve, or die of plague, or kill themselves, than allow one filthy pagan across the…

#3 - If Ragnar dies, Erlendur will probably proclaim himself the rightful king. At which point, Rollo will rip his head off with his bare (bear?) hands, "Don't have to listen to that brat anymore."

Lola has proven herself to be pretty smart. Plus she actually cares about Scotland, where Mary can only view it as an abstract (which means the viewer can't care about it much, either).

Crimes against fashion - just because you live in the walls, it doesn't mean you have to wear a sack.

It could be interesting if Mary completely writes off Scotland in favor of French interests, then Francis dies and she's forced to return to a country whose people know she abandoned them. However, Francis has become one of my favorite characters, so I want him to keep living.

The window, yeah, should have shredded Louis' hand. Maybe that's the next big story arc - Louis will blackmail Catherine with the fact that the cross-hatching on the windows is just painted on, and the money earmarked for it has been diverted for devious purposes. "Make Mary come with me or face a class-action…

I think Rollo's expression in the header image is partly confusion at wearing a shirt for the first time in weeks. Not that I'm complaining.

I was taken out of the episode right at the beginning - I don't believe you can just doggy-paddle across the Seine without being carried downriver by the current. It bothered me last week with bodies falling in the river, but I was able to rationalize it that there was so many bodies and siege towers that it was…

Since Thorunn was a slave, she was probably captured, maybe from Russia, and doesn't identify with the "Viking" culture.
I had some problems with the actress' accent, too, but it was more that the dialogue she was given included some of the most difficult phonetics for a native French speaker to overcome - to the point…

Yeah, it's weird to hear characters refer to Charlemagne in the past tense when Charlemagne is still alive (dies in 814).

I'm getting more that Ryan Reynolds plays a germophobe, desperately trying to not to think about the old lady mucus spreading over his hands, and only a millisecond away from screaming for hand sanitizer.

*Spoilers*

In the book this is based on (by Anne Marie O'Connor), Maria Altmann's niece, Nelly Auersperg, says that she tried to convince the family to only allow public museums or galleries to bid at the auction and that they refused. The other family members claim that she never suggested that, but that they apparently didn't…

If it makes you feel better, think about how long he had to be diving in that bay to find the arm ring Athelstan chucked out there.